Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.